Dan(NM)

Dean Ricker has screen covers available for the Simplex. I've been using his covers for quite some time, excellent quality. I paid $25 shipped. Here is Dean's e-mail addy where he can be contacted..... rickerskpd@cableone.net

56 minutes ago, Ridge Runner said:

If the Simplex is as great that we think it will be for what all it has to offer I don’t see myself selling it. 

 The people that bought a detector that cost two or three times more than the Simplex that offers less has a real problem  if they want to move it.

 I can’t say that the Simplex will be your number one go to detector . But for me at a low cost it is when water hunting it will be. Especially when my high dollar detector is out of warranty. On the Simplex  it would be best if it’s still in warranty but if  not for the price no big deal. I’ll just buy me another!

 What I’d like to know if the Simplex has made the long swim to U S shores? I can’t find a word saying so .

 Chuck 

This is a quote from Dilek from a facebook page

"Our first shipment to USA left on October 26th as promised and landed in the USA on Sunday or Monday, followed by 2 others that are landing in the USA tomorrow.

Due to the high demand for the product, we are trying to allocate product in the most fair way we can. We are planning to ship All pre-orders GLOBALLY within November. All the remaining USA orders that we received so far will ship the week of November 18th.

As we are not privy to any dealer or end user orders, we do not know which customer will get their units in the first 3 shipments that have already been sent to USA.

Please note that the demand for the product has exceeded the initial forecasts that were provided by distributors around the world. We have already increased our production capacity and we are hoping to go back to our regular lead times after all the pre-orders have been shipped.

Hope this helps and puts an end to all rumours or misinformation that I see on different groups.

Should you have any other questions, please feel free to ask me directly as the information will be accurate and honest!

Best Regards,"

I just moved back to my home state of Texas, Lago Vista, to be exact. I'm  20 minutes from Leander, 40 from Georgetown, 30 from Marble Falls. I've been hunting on and off for 30 years now. My interests are old coin, relics, shallow water hunting. I'd drive 2 hours one way to hunt if need be, thanks.

12 minutes ago, steveg said:

VERY nice digs!  Excellent way to say "goodbye" to New Mexico, I'd say,

Thanks for sharing!  Makes me wish for another chance at "my" fort site...

Congrats!

Steve

Thanks Steve,

For a place that everyone had given up on, we have taken a vast amount of relics outta here in the 7 months. I'll miss it for sure, that is until I find a similar place in Texas 🙂

After 20 years of hunting in southern NM, it's time for a new adventure in Central Texas. I met up with a couple of fellow hunters, Jimmy from NM and Phil from Az for one last relic hunt. It was a pleasure to meet Phil(Bergie), he is one on the nicest guys you'd want to meet and hunt with.   Jimmy and I have been hunting together for the last 5 years and I couldn't have asked for a better friend and hunting partner.

Turned out to be a great day to hunt, the weather was perfect and the targets were plenty. Everyone scored some nice buttons and relics, I couldn't have asked for a better way to close out my hunting days here in the southwest. I did manage to find a couple of my favorites buttons, a Dragoon and a Kepi along with the usual pre-civil war relics, bullets, percussion caps, epaulette piece and some small buck and ball lead. Jimmy unfortunately had to head out a bit early to tend to some family stuff. I'm sure he and Phil will post their finds later.

The last picture is what I found after Jimmy headed home, the copper coin is from the mid 1800's, it's a Mexican copper 1/4 reale, we have found 8-9 at this location.

My settings

Park - 1
Sens - 24
F2 - 0
Recovery - 3
2- tones
No disc
Tone break set from -9 to +8

Thanks for looking!!

I figured out how to access the new FE feature. Go to the iron bias setting, push accept/reject button(far right)  Once there you can adjust the settings from 0-9 , what that does I cannot tell you 🙂 

Running new version now.

https://www.minelab.com/usa/equinox-software-update-2-0

Minelab Software Upgrade Instructions pdf

EQUINOX SOFTWARE UPDATE 2.0

At Minelab, we get your passion. And like you, we never leave any stone unturned. It’s that same grit and determination that drives us to make every product and every innovation just that much better.

WHAT IS NEW?

Difficult ferrous targets — the common enemy for all detectorists. That is until EQUINOX. Hit the download on our EQUINOX update to make those pesky bottle caps, rusty nails and other falsing targets a thing of the past. Fire up the Minelab Update Utility and you’re on your way. It’s simple. You’ll experience the enhanced Iron Bias feature, improved EQUINOX 600 backlight and much more.

Improved Iron Bias

Iron Bias has been enhanced with the addition of a new Iron Bias settings profile. The original EQUINOX Iron Bias 'FE' settings will still be available, but there is now the option to switch to the new Iron Bias 'F2' settings, which have an improved capability to reject a much wider range of difficult iron targets, including bottle caps.

EQUINOX 600 Backlight Brightness

The EQUINOX 600 now has the ability to adjust the backlight brightness to an additional 'Low' setting that matches the minimum setting on the EQUINOX 800. This 'Low' brightness is ideal for detecting at night and in low light conditions.

MINELAB UPDATE UTILITY (MUU) DETAILS

Minimum System Requirements:

USB 2.0 port
EQUINOX USB Charging Cable with Magnetic Connector

Windows 10:

50 MB of hard drive space
20 MB of RAM

MAC OS:

Greater than 10.13 High Sierra
50 MB of hard drive space
30 MB of RAM

Note:

• Only one EQUINOX can be connected to your computer during the update operation.
• The EQUINOX must be ON during the software update.
• Any custom detector settings will be preserved while performing the update.
• An internet connection is required to download the Minelab Update Utility to the computer, however, an internet connection is not required to update the EQUINOX and this can be done offline.
• The EQUINOX coil must be connected to perform the update.

Important: Do not turn off or disconnect the EQUINOX during the update process.

Version displayed after the update is 2.1.12

How To Rollback Equinox To Previous Software Version

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1 hour ago, Erik_in_Mission said:

Hello friends! 

Iam very close to leave to Tanzania now. Up until now kam training with a cheap detector Form China. 

I left the plan to buy a gpx cause i can hardly use it in Europe so now iam so i want to buy now:

An Equinox 800 or a ctx 3030.

So what i know is that the equinox came out a few years after the ctx and that it has a special mode for prospecting Gold. 

Does anyone has an expirience with both detectors and can tell me whats fits better for high Mineral ground and prospecting gold? Or whats would you prefer?

Honestly i want to stick with minelab cause i heard a lot oft good things. 

THX greetings 

Erik

 

If you plan on prospecting for gold, you might as well forget the CTX, it'll be useless. Honestly, if I were prospecting for gold and that was my main focus, I would get a pulse induction machine. If you don't want to spend that kind of money then I would definitely get the Equinox.

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Gotcha.  You killed it.  Like that old style Sharps and a few P caps too.  And you always seem to come away with a few Eagles.  Wonder how Field 1 would do there.  Good digs.

 Thank you Chase.

I started with Field 2 in the beginning. I decided to do a test with a 50 or 60 cal. round musket ball that I had dug that morning.  I set Park, Field and beach modes, both 1 and 2 in all modes, exactly the same, identical, including the tone breaks. I buried the musket ball at exactly 9", I always carry a plastic 12" ruler to measure target depths.

  Th soil here is very sandy, basic desert dirt, I've checked with a magnet to see whether or not there is any black sand mixed in, none, very clean and benign sand. I figured Field 2 would bang on the ball, you know, higher frequency weighting and all that jazz. I got nothing???  I went though every mode one by one, I Gb'd and did a noise cancel every time I switched modes. The only mode that would hit the musket ball was Park 1 and it did it with a tone that I would recognize as a dig me signal, the kind of fringe signals I'm looking for and will dig. The numbers jumped into the upper 30's, pretty consistent.

  I was a bit shocked because Park 1 is supposed to hit better on high conductors and the field modes, low. It was the exact opposite of what I anticipated. I did the same test when I got home in soil that's nothing like where I did the first one. I buried an eagle cuff button at 7" and did the same test as before. Once again, the only mode, Park 1, was the only one that gave a, dig me signal.

 So, from that day on, I was use Park 1 and will mess with recovery speeds depending on how much noise i get from the particular area I hunt at the 1850's site. It's been a great spot the learn the quirks of the Nox.

That is correct

11 minutes ago, Chase Goldman said:

I figured you already had the tone break at zero if you were running 2-tone no disc.  So you had it set at +8, then?

That is correct Chase, the reason that we were running our tone break at that point, the amount of aluminum slaw and tiny pieces of aluminum foil was overwhelming. With the tone break set at that point we, could still pick up percussion caps without wasting so much time chasing worthless debris.  I'm having to drive an hour and a half one way to get to this place and I wanted to maximize time spent digging the better targets versus trying to dig it all.

1 hour ago, GB_Amateur said:

Can you estimate the number hits per swing that were less than +9?

 

I honestly couldn't say, I don't watch the meter until I get a target that I wanted to investigate. Even then the numbers don't determine whether I will dig or not. I will say this, next time I go back I'm dropping my tone break down to zero.

Greats finds, love that button!!

Great find, congrats!!!

14 minutes ago, StevenB said:

That site looks awesome!  I dug an identical heart "rosette" earlier this year at an old home site, and found all kinds of conflicting information online about its age and use.  Then I flipped open my 1929 Montgomery Ward catalog and lo and behold I found the answer (see photo).  It's actually a buckle cover, not a rosette.  Mystery solved!
 

Excellent work, that's just too cool!!

Man you're killing it on your lunch break!!! Congratulations on the last two hunts, those are beautiful coins.

4 hours ago, steveg said:

Dan -- 

Just an amazing amount of cool finds, you have there.  From such an unsuspecting-looking site, in the middle of the desert!

Great recoveries!

Steve

Thank you Steve, it is mind-boggling how much stuff is out here. It sure makes for some interesting hunting.

1 hour ago, strick said:

Thats a great place to hunt..I have a place similar but only WW2 stuff and not nearly as productive as your spot... here is a link to the bridal rosette says they may be civil war era 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/613318664/vintage-brass-heart-horse-harness-buckle?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=civil+war+bridle&ref=sr_gallery-1-19&sca=1

on your second picture there is a button that has a round ball and what appears to be a flame on it middle of the picture left side second button...do you know what that is? I got one like that last weekend and my friend says its a bomb squad insignia ?

strick

That bridle rosette was, from what I was told, used during the civil war, but, I can't confirm that.  The collar disc you mentioned is the first one I've found from the 3 sites we hunt. Im unsure  what it represents.

38 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

Great finds, Dan.  It seems that spot is button paradise!  Oh, do you know what that thing is with the heart on it?  I found an identical one last weekend hunting an old homestead.  Do you think it has military origin or just a coincidence that it showed up there?

It's a military horse bridle rosette from WW1, when I first dug it, I thought I had a watch fob.

I got out this past Sunday to hunt a place we hunted a couple weeks back to give it another pounding. It's a WW1/WW2 dump site out in the desert, it looks to have been burned somewhere and dumped here and spread out. Just under the surface is powdered ash, some things look burnt, others don't. It's littered with every type of metal you can think of, copper, alum, brass, lead and iron everywhere. I was running park 1, using the 6" coil, recovery speed 6, sens 18,  0 disc, 0 iron bias, 2 tones with my tone break at 17 and ground balance at 0
  I decided to go over the same area that me and another guy had hit previously only from a different direction, ? man we both suck lol, it was like we never hunted it before. I spent close to 9 hours going slowly thru all the crap, I was amazed at how much we had missed !! I finally had to call it a day when it hit 104 ?
  As you can see, it pays to hit a spot from different directions multiple times.  My favorite finds are the large rosettes, the 2 WW1 dog tags, the heart rosette and the collar buttons.

5 hours ago, strick said:

Happened to me this weekend at least 6 times..all of the sudden it gets really chattery and loud like the worst EMI you have ever heard...the numbers on the screen are going all over the place...first time I was near some power lines so I thought maybe it was because of that...It would do it  and then stop and then start doing it again. I looked around thinking someone who hated metal detectors was targeting me with some EMI device lol...Then it happened again  at 3 other locations yesterday...I tried re noise cancelling several times but that did not work...tried lowering the sensitivity almost down to zero and it was still going mad. Turning the machine off and then on again did not fix the issue...so I did a factory reset and that fixed it...but then an hour later it started up again...anyone have or seen this before? It happened in several different programs.

strick

Did you try taking the coil cover off and cleaning it out. My buddy's machine was acting up, he had a small piece of wire inside the coil cover.

Yes, I always have to press the detect button twice after I do a noise cancel. If I don't, my machine will still function normally, but, it will not display the vdi, only the noise cancel screen. It has been like that from day one.

Met up with a couple of fellow hunters to hunt a WW1/WW2 dump site, it was a button feast today. Also was able to score 2 mercs, a barber and a wheat. Overall a great way to celebrate Independence Day, thanks for looking.

Those are some very impressive finds, congratulations!